chadkRN

chadkRN specializes in Med/Surg Subspecialty.

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1. New Grad RN First Job OR or Med/Surg Oncology

   chadkRN replied to chadkRN's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you to everyone for you time and responses I appreciate all of your wisdom and advice. I will still be praying about it, but think that the Med/Surg experience is a great place for me to start out and at the age of 39 with 6 years of military ...

2. New Grad RN First Job OR or Med/Surg Oncology

   chadkRN replied to chadkRN's topic in General Nursing

   There is not really much overtime in the OR, it is where I capstoned for my last 6 weeks of nursing school. It will be a hard decision for me!!

3. New Grad RN First Job OR or Med/Surg Oncology

   chadkRN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am asking for any wisdom out there as to if I should work in the OR as I would be trained in all the different areas, or if I should work at the VA on a Med/Surg Oncology unit for my first job? The job at the VA would pay about $10,000 more a year,...

4. Research College of Nursing

   chadkRN replied to Nurse Man-ingitis's topic in Missouri

   I think it would be very manageable to work in serving on Thursday, Friday, or Saturdays. I would not over do it, as you will have a lot of homework to get caught up on the weekends. The would classify the workload as manageable though!!

5. Research College of Nursing

   chadkRN replied to Nurse Man-ingitis's topic in Missouri

   Jaimeiam, To be honest we have only been in school now for about 4 weeks. We are finishing up with Assessment of Nursing, and have 2 more weeks of Foundations of Nursing. The reading to be honest is manageable, in Foundations we have pretty much ha...

6. Research College of Nursing

   chadkRN replied to Nurse Man-ingitis's topic in Missouri

   I am an Accellerated Option Student for Fall 2010, I am also a male. I was glad during our interview that I was not the only male. I look forward to meeting all of you, pray for me to pass all of my pre-reqs. Really the only pre-req that I am worr...

7. McMurray's Test

   chadkRN replied to Amy2005's topic in Orthopaedic

   Hello, I am a future nursing student who is a certified athletic trainer. The McMurray's test is somewhat accurate, but clinically does give a lot of false positives. To perform the McMurray's I cup the patients heel in one hand with an overhand gr...